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She was 24 when he moved in, she was living on her own and probably didn't visit her mom very often.

Polyamory was most definitely not on my bingo card 😳 I can imagine the toxic accounts are going nuts ranting about western decadence and slut shaming (I wouldn't know because I have them all blocked 😌) . I gotta say I've known people in real life who are poly and every single relationship blew up as a direct result so I tend to be biased against them. I'm super curious how the drama will deal with the relationship since sis doesn't seem particularly happy. If the drama ends up with sis happily throupled I will truly say dramas are changing.

The kiss was such a let down 😭😭 😭 But I remember that the first kiss in Dali and Cocky Prince was bad but then the rest of the skinship in the drama was excellent so hoping for the same here. I know SMA and KYD are capable of bringing it.

I like how the second leads are developing, it's going to be interesting to see what happens once Ja Yeon, Gyu Hyun and the secretary are finally face to face.

Off was honestly so good in this, he's matured a lot as an actor and he deserves better roles. I really noticed his improvement in Midnight Motel which is very funny and worth checking out.

Tae and Bahmee running into Judy, Tae getting jealous, and then Tae & Mee immediately getting engaged was such a fuck you to all of the people invested in a GL story, I'm truly boggled by the whole thing.

Ryan maturing would've been great if it happened over a couple of episodes instead of five minutes of the last episode. And Jane going no contact with Ryan for FIVE YEARS should've earned him a kick in the balls no matter how fine he is.

This show turned out to be such a letdown. It's a great example that no matter how great the visuals are it doesn't make up for bad writing. Parbdee needs to reassess where they're investing their time and money.

I think the sister is traumatized by her history as a foster child and that's why her relationship with her boyfriend is screwed up

The social commentary about the patriarchy is still in there. We had the scene where the ahjumma lectured her about making breakfast for her husband and later she says I work hard too why should I make you breakfast. There's also the scene where the lawyer takes her daughter to the police station and another scene where a woman is working out because her husband isn't paying child support and she's going to kick his ass at his expensive second wedding. Those are just three I can think of off the top of my head but I know there's more. Yes the show is tropey but it's the way it fills in the lines of the tropes that's special.

Dramacool

One of the characters writes erotica and it's scenes from her books which depict sex between her and a man she had a crush on in high school but it's very stylized and played for laughs.

They've already announced the spin-off drama starring the two of them so they are definitely an end game couple

There's a lot of joking about sex and a scene where the FL buys condoms plus some fantasy sex scenes that aren't explicit but are clear about what's going on.

There's a far right wing government in office in Korea, many senior politicians are affiliated with right wing churches and there's been a push to refuse permits to pride parades and otherwise discriminate against the LGBTQIA community. This was just tweeted yesterday: "1/ Yesterday, Constitutional Court justice nominee Kim Bok-hyung was questioned about whether she "agreed with homosexuality" and whether it is linked to communism during her confirmation hearing. She stated there's no special relationship between the two." https://x.com/koryodynasty/status/1833736433573704184

Also a lot of Kdrama fans outside of Korea are incredibly regressive, it's depressing.

I think the mom is going to expose Ji UK to ruin her husband with a scandal and put her son into the chairman's spot. she most definitely knew what was going on at that dinner and Hae-yeong thought to herself that she was the real power behind the throne.

This is one case where it makes sense because they all passed out in bed drunk without taking their clothes off

My prediction is that Bok Gyu Hyun will become the chairman and Ji UK will run an organization to help orphans. But I'm curious where Hae-yeong will end up in all this, she's going to hate it when she finds out the attention she's been getting from the chairman is because of her husband. I think it's going to cause a breakup...before they're officially together 😅

It's on Dramacool and DailyMotion

I love this analysis, agree with all of it and especially about Hae-yeong realizing her privilege and the gifts her mother gave her. But also Ji Uk learning that he doesn't have to be perfect to be loved and that it's better to be fully honest with her.

I thought he was legit hilarious in Sh**ting Stars, they could never make me hate him either

There's different sites using the same name but not run by the same people.

LND is like a Frankenstein's monster of tropes stitched together and characters who don't feel like real people. Meanwhile, NGNL is very tropey but the way the drama colors in the lines of the tropes is special. The dialogues crackle, women's sexuality is a big part of the drama, as in women of all ages and levels of experience desire sex and enjoy it when they have it. The drama also calls out unfair treatment of women at work. But nothing about this drama feels lecturey, the writing is sharp and funny and the actors are killing it.

He was one of her mother's foster kids (but after she'd already graduated from college) and he knew who she was when she started going to the convenience store where he worked so he had a reason to be interested in her from the start and then over the years started to catch feelings for her.